1978 gigs & sessions now live on 10452

[Jay]

Do any other songs from the Sydney show circulate?

[Ian]

I'm not sure about that-I have heard the perth show and the version of Good Vibrations is the one mentioned by Carlin- in his book- where Carl is just making a mess of it and Brian, out of nowhere, suddenly comes alive and starts the Hum-De-Dum chant to get them out of a jam-though Carl promptly starts the mess again. If that is not from the Perth show-than Carl was seriously messed up at the Sydney show as well.  Without a doubt-the most ragged Good Vibrations ever sung by Carl

[Andrew G. Doe]

Not sure where it's from (on the '78 Oz tour, natch), but I've heard Carl sing the world's worst version of "Darlin". Pitch, timing, phrasing, key... none of them were even close.

[TonyW]

The two Perth shows circulate entirely, audience recordings.

The GOK and GV tracks are actually from Sydney.

Not correct. Perth shows are soundboards. GOK & GV are not, I repeat, ARE NOT, from Sydney they are from the first Perth show 14-Mar-78. They have been incorrectly labelled on boots. There is no argument on this - it has been gone over a gazillion times on this and other boards. I was at the Sydney shows and those recordings ARE NOT Sydney, the Perth performances have been verified by people who were there as well.

[Jay]

Not sure where it's from (on the '78 Oz tour, natch), but I've heard Carl sing the world's worst version of "Darlin". Pitch, timing, phrasing, key... none of them were even close.

I read somewhere that Carl fell into the drumset during Darlin' at one of the Australian shows. How you could wind up all the way across the stage into the drumset when you're supposed to be singing at the mic, I have no clue.